Burton Albion boss Nigel Clough insisted that a point was the least his side deserved as they halted Aston Villa’s run of victories.

Villa had won their previous four Championship games, and looked set to extend that run to five when Jonathan Kodjia scored early on.

Yet ex-West Brom winger and Birmingham City loanee Lloyd Dyer pegged Villa back, and Clough indicated that it was his side that were pressing harder for a winner in the second half, despite Villa being the higher team in the table.

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The Brewers, fighting off relegation, have collected four points from a run of fixtures against Huddersfield, Newcastle and Villa and Clough was understandably pleased.

“Yes, it was [the least we deserved], and we recovered well from the mistake Ben Turner made early on to get a point out of the game,” Clough told the Burton Mail.

“When you do go 1-0 down as early on as we did, against a defence as solid as Aston Villa - they don’t give anything, they’ve been grinding out results and keeping clean sheets - it was always going to be difficult to break them down from that point.